If you are eligible to sit for the exams in November, the deadline for entry has passed. However, you can enter during the late period until the last day of September, at the cost of an additional £100. No entries can be accepted after this date.

The Exam Focus and Skills days were held earlier this month and will benefit you in a number of areas for the forthcoming exams because:

They were designed to help kickstart your revision with confidence, covering both core and challenging areas of the syllabus for each paper.

The tutor guided students through each exam standard and past exam questions, showing students how to effectively identify issues and scenarios as well as providing assistance as regards to an exam standard answer.

The sessions were run by very experienced tutors from BPP, Kaplan Financial and Tolley Tax Training.

You can still access the webinar recordings for the very reasonable cost of £10 on Owner-Managed Businesses, Individuals, Taxation of Major Corporates and Application and Interaction.

Remember, good exam and revision technique can be the difference in passing or failing a paper.

The webinars can be purchased as they become available. Please check the link below.

For the avoidance of doubt, the 2018 exams will be based on the first Finance Act 2017. The second Finance Act of 2017 will not be examined in 2018.

Tolley have produced a supplement for the first Finance Act 2017, which is available, here. You can also obtain a discount from this supplement, here (PDF download).

Therefore for the examinations in 2018, you may have the 2016/17 legislation books and the supplement, or the 2017/18 legislation that includes the second Finance Act, even though it will contain material not technically in the 2018 syllabus.

To be clear, you can bring in any combination of the above - it is all legislation and therefore allowable.

Permitted Books in the Examination – DISQUALIFICATION WARNING

Please be aware that in fairness to all candidates any candidate found in possession of a non-permitted book in the exam hall CAN be disqualified from the entire examination session. A list of permitted books can be found on our website and in the candidate instructions sent to you three weeks before the examination. Please read them carefully.

Candidates have been disqualified for this reason.

For the avoidance of doubt, manuals from the tutorial bodies are NOT permitted books.

If you sat the Advisory: VAT on UK Domestic Transactions, IPT & SDLT paper at the November 2017 exam session, you can view a webinar which considers the exam paper in detail explaining the areas where candidates did not score marks, and why, and how marks could have been achieved.

If you are planning on sitting this exam paper for the first time in November 2018 this webinar should be essential viewing.

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